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Oklahoma City, Ok, Us

Edmond, Oklahoma, United States

Planning and Analysis:Consult with faculty across a variety of disciplines with the design of online, hybrid and competency-based courses to convert desired traditional elements into pedagogically sound eLearning courses.Conduct a needs assessment.Select, modify and design curriculum for online courses with the LMS called D2L Brightspace.Research best practices in online pedagogy.Create project timelines for faculty to ensure success in completion of course design.Evaluate course design and give effective solutions.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Zoom and Panopto Administrator-set up meetings for faculty, edit and upload videos to Panopto.Assist Faculty with D2L courses: Strategic Management, Healthcare Management, and graduate level courses in the Master of Energy Program. Co-taught strategic management 4-week online course.Created a Best Practices in Online Teaching Course in D2L.Provided consultation for best practices in beginning a fully online program, made recommendations, researched and compared various educational technology tools.Completed Brightspace D2L training.Train faculty on D2L, Zoom and Panopto. Assisted with Zoom in the live classroom and as a desktop application. Edited Panopto videos as needed.Updated D2L Web pages, created content, quizzes, discussion pages, and verified pages and hyperlinks were accessible.Created student orientation module for online courses with D2L.Created and designed a variety of instructional materials, zoom handbook, and faculty online handbook materials.

Los Altos Hills, Ca

• Work with subject matter experts to create videos for the Online Network Initiative with Camtasia.• Evaluated web pages and PDF documents to ensure accessibility standards have been met.• Wave checker for Accessibility and 508 Compliance: created headings, alternate tags for images.• Assisted with the clean-up of web pages for various courses-used basic html coding and formatting.• Assisted with the evaluation of online courses for community college faculty throughout the state of California to ensure specific rubrics and guidelines are adhered to.• Provided excellent customer service to clients-consulted with an RN on a 25- topic student wellness project. Edited text and created banners for web pages.• Created 23 modules and over 125 web pages for the state-wide community college online student wellness project. Added text, weblinks, uploaded YouTube videos, created 17 quizzes, infographics and uploaded photos. Evaluated all pages to ensure accessibility guidelines are up to standard.• Created screencast videos, infographics, and edited and tagged photos and infographics. Trained on the concept of PDF accessibility with Adobe Acrobat DC.• Created an instructional design plan that included: learning strategies and methods, examples of page setups, pedagogy, training development plan, style guide examples, and assessment forms.• Created a detailed log of all the updates and changes for each module and added a list of what was needed to help the team stay organized.• Consulted with a graphic artist professor to assist in the design of student wellness infographic.• Updated Smartsheets as project progressed. Met all deadlines on time.• Participated and led Zoom online videos.• Team player, worked well with others, self-trained and self-taught for most of the work.

Palos Verdes Peninsula

Created social media videos, website editing, and job aides as a volunteer, pro-bono instructional designer.

Fullerton, Ca

Social MediaWrite MSIDT alumni articles to post on website by adding from LinkedIn profiles and interview notes.Collaborate with Dr. Cynthia Gautreau to create Instructional Design Careers for Teachers.Presented a workshop on How to Use Voicethread at an in-service training meeting for teachers.Assist with Education Week. Collaborate to encourage prospective students on campus to find out more about our program by handing out flyers, and treats.

Sacramento, California Area

Subjects Taught: 20th Century Fine Arts, Computer Literacy, Interpersonal Communication, Sociology, Ethics, Human Relations, Human Resources Management, and Techniques in Supervision in Business.Earned “outstanding” ratings on student reviews.Recognized for high-quality work, organizational strengths and exceptional delivery of course curriculum on ground and on the online platform e-College.

Sacramento, California Area

Helped students write resumes, assisted in the campus library, helped students with research papers using APA format, how to conduct research using online databases, how to improve study skills, assisted with basic computer applications and helped them succeed with their college courses.

Carrington College-Corporate Offices Sacramento, Ca

Instructed and motivated students in meeting course learning objectives and campus student learning objectives. Helped with administrative duties for the General Education program including training and tracked instructors to help them with student learning outcome reports, tracked students for any add/drops, assisted students, curriculum development, dropped and enrolled students with Campusvue as de facto registrar.

Elk Grove, Ca

Women’s Career Support “A unique career coaching and professional services business for women.Helping women overcoming barriers to success and become self-actualized.Resume writing for business professionals, cover letters, job searching on social media, and career coaching. DISC Authorized Behavior Consultant with Profiling Pro, job descriptions, o-net, interviewing skills, and Powerpoint presentations.

Sacramento, California Area

Facilitated student's work weekly with discussion board topics and provided thorough and detailed feedback. Posted all grades in a timely and professional manner.Courses Taught: MGT 372 Organizational Behavior

Sacramento, California Area

Coached and trained clients from dental offices throughout the United States to use the Straine Management System to help increase profitability, improve interoffice communication and teamwork, expand patient base with easy to use marketing ideas, and implement interoffice policies and procedures.

Seattle, Washington

Provided administrative, personnel, and patient support. Coordinated multiple projects and assignments, identified improvements to policies and procedures, and supervised the work of 25 employees. Recruited, trained, and inspired employees to achieve company objectives and learn new business standards. In charge of organizing district company holiday party including catering, obtaining a music DJ, invitations, and decorations.

Santa Monica, Ca

Verification of patient insurance plans, handled billing and collections of accounts, Completed CPT and ICD-9 coding, resolved patient relation problems, established rapport in all business communication, and streamlined all credentialed contracts. Trained and developed staff on a new company-wide software program. Also, created a detailed handout of all radiology procedures and performed a cost analysis comparison. Created a team for Making Strides for Breast Cancer.

Master Of Science - Ms, College Of Education, Instructional Design And Technology, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Certified Voice Thread Educator, October 2015 Adobe Captivate 8 and 9 Fundamentals, 2016 Co-Captain.

Master'S Of Arts, Organizational Management, 3.8 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Volunteer at SPARC Los Angeles http://sparcinla.org/; Independent 35 MM Photography Project; Death and Dying.

Bachelor'S Of Liberal Arts, Liberal Arts, 3.8 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Volunteer at SPARC in LA http://sparcinla.org/, Westside Unity Church, Renal Support Network, and other.